Watch As DART Bus Plows Into Stopped Cars, Shuts Down Tollway
Remember last week when a bus crash shut down the Dallas North Tollway? Turns out the NTTA has video. Posted it this afternoon. No one died in the crash, so you can enjoy it guilt free…
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Showing 13047 - 13068 of 35753Methodist Hospital Puts Kidney in Wrong Patient, Suspends Transplant Program
A little while ago, WFAA reported that Methodist Dallas Medical Center had made a teensy error during a recent operation and transplanted a kidney into the wrong patient. The kidney turned out to be compatible and the patient is fine, but when Methodist discovered the mistake last week, it raised…
Number of Births at Parkland Dropping Fast
The graph above shows the number of babies delivered each year at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Notice the steep downward trajectory, from 15,800 in 2008 to a projected 10,700 in 2013. That’s a 32-percent drop or, in layman’s terms, a shit-load fewer babies. I noticed this almost a month ago, back…
JP Morgan Chase Killed Minister Then Evicted Wife, Lawsuit Claims
View Larger Map Harry Engel loved his home right up to the day it killed him. The retired minister had grown up as an orphan, so he took particular pride in the modest Grand Prairie house he had shared with wife Wanda for 22 years. In February 2010, the couple…
Nicolas Monarrez, the Cartel Op Accused of Murdering a Pregnant Teen and Her Boyfriend, Arrested Five Years Later
On January 6, 2007, Linoshka Torres, 18, and her boyfriend, 20-year-old Luis Campos, parked his dad’s car in the driveway of an Oak Cliff mechanic’s house and vanished, keys still in the ignition of the red Ford Explorer, cell phones on the seat. It was supposed to have been a…
Former Bus Monitor Sues Dallas County Schools After Being Fired For Urinating On Himself
Paul Green was not in the best of health in 2009 when he was hired as a bus monitor by Dallas County Schools. He had been battling colon cancer for more than a decade and, several years before, had been diagnosed with hypertension and congestive heart failure. As a result,…
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Study: Texas Teens Sure Love to Sext
A team of Texas researchers recently published the findings of a scientific undertaking studying a condition plaguing 28 percent of Texas teens. Sexting. So now, when that half-cocked smile rolls across a teen’s face in line at 7-Eleven or when your kid checks his phone at the dinner table and…
911 Callers Put On Hold While Oak Cliff Home Burns
At about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dora Fuller and her family were woken by smoke alarms. They quickly rushed from the home, on Berwick Avenue in Oak Cliff and called 911. They got a recording telling them all dispatchers were busy. So they hung up and tried again. And again. So…
When Innocent Prisoners Finally Go Free, Their Prosecutors Do, Too
The outcome was already determined, the stories already written, but the cameras and the recorders were out anyway, waiting for the judge to say the words. He was about to declare Richard Miles actually, technically, legally innocent of a 1994 murder, a shooting at a Texaco station near Bachman Lake…
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On America’s Birthday, Here’s a Dallas Woman Who Wants to Throw Every Homeless Kid in Texas a Birthday Party
Paige Chenault runs The Birthday Project, which partners with the Family Gateway shelter to throw birthday parties for homeless children. Which is way more patriotic than anything I did today. via Tiny Dallas…
Decomposed Body Found Near Lexus Dealership Victim of Death, Not Murder, Police Say
View Larger Map An employee of Sewell Lexus on Monday happened upon a badly decomposed body police initially believed had been stabbed or shot in the back of the head. An autopsy has since ruled out homicide, and police are treating it as an unexplained death pending toxicology results. But…
In Southwest Dallas, City Uncovers and Plans to Restore One of Its Oldest Remaining Structures
Before the city of Dallas was contacted several years ago about accepting a few dozen mostly undeveloped acres along the edge of the escarpment in southwest Dallas, few outside the Niblo family knew what it contained. It had been settled as part of the Peters Colony, which was founded at…
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University Park Woman Charged With Distributing Child Porn Kicked Out of Rehab For Attempting Suicide
Erika Perdue, the 41-year-old University Park woman indicted in May for collecting and sharing child pornography, has been kicked out of a rehab facility for attempting suicide, court records show. Last week, U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney ordered that Perdue be detained until trial, deeming her a flight risk…
Has the “God Particle” Been Found? Let’s Ask the SMU Prof Who’s Been Looking.
In the early morning hours Wednesday, physicists in Switzerland may announce that they’ve discovered the elusive “God Particle,” aka the Higgs boson. For more than half a century, the Higgs has been the theoretical mechanism that imbued matter with mass after the Big Bang, so that the swirling chaos of…
Number of Uninsured Motorists Didn’t Actually Go Down By 38 Percent
Front page of the DMN this morning is a story to warm the heart of anyone who owns a car: The number of uninsured drivers in Texas has dropped and dropped hard, from 4.2 million to 2.6 million, all in a single year. That comes after rates have been hovering…
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Man Sues Dallas Doc, McKinney Hospital After Losing Testicle, Length of Colon Due to Allegedly Botched Hernia Surgery
Pedro Hermenegildo didn’t have insurance, so he paid Dr. Ricardo Rocha in cash to repair a hernia, a fairly routine, outpatient procedure. But according to a lawsuit filed against Rocha in a Dallas County district court last week, Hermenegildo lost much more than his hernial bulge. The surgery was performed…
Mike Miles, In First Official Day As DISD Superintendent, Likes Graduation-Rate Trend, Was a Little Embarrassed By Those Billboards
Given his high profile over the past few months and some much-publicized decisions, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Mike Miles has actually been DISD’s superintendent. Which he has, of course, but not officially and not full-time until Monday, when he took the reins in earnest. It was a busy…
Precinct 1 Needs a New Constable: Jury Finds Derick Evans Guilty of Organized Crime
Update at 5:02 p.m.: No jail time, but two years probation and a $10,000 fine. Also, Evans has already appealed the conviction, meaning he can’t be removed from office unless “the court that renders judgment finds that it is in the public interest,” which is slated to take place on…
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Brian Fuller, Accused of Beating and Robbing a Woman of a $90,000 Wedding Ring, Arrested After America’s Most Wanted Appearance
On the night of January 25, 2010, Jil Katz was walking to her car in the parking lot of Whole Foods at Preston and Forest when she was approached by a man who threw her to the ground and repeatedly slammed her face into the pavement, breaking her nose and…
‘Health Concerns’ Sideline Rangers Broadcaster Dave Barnett For Season After On-Air Meltdown
The Texas Rangers just sent word: Broadcaster Dave Barnett, who rambled incoherently about henchmen and botched robberies during a recent game, is out of the booth for at least the rest of the season. He’ll be replaced by radio play-by-play man Steve Busby. Per a statement from Barnett: I want…
Voice Actor Dropped as Voice of Chuck E. Cheese Would Be Pissed if He Weren’t Such a Darn Good Christian
If you’ve ever been serenaded by an animatronic mouse while eating terrible pepperoni pizza and fending off hordes of screaming 5-year-olds, you know Duncan Brannan. For the past 19 years, the Dallas-area voice actor has been the nasal whine behind Chuck E. Cheese, the whiskered face of the eponymous, Irving-based…
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Three Years Later, A Documentary On the Controversial Raid Of A Fort Worth Gay Bar
One night in late June three years ago, police and TABC officers entered the Rainbow Lounge, a new gay bar in Fort Worth. By the time they left 40 minutes later, six people had been arrested. A seventh, 26-year-old Chad Gibson, was taken to the hospital with multiple skull fractures…